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Harrison Liam Cowan arrived on St Patrick’s Day at 3:08 AM, after more than 20 hours of labor (well, Jessica did most of the labor, and Harrison was just along for the ride).  7 lb 9 oz.  A very cute baby, but that goes without saying, and he already has more hair than I do […]

Rebecca and I were guests of honor at two conventions in the past three weeks, SheVaCon in Roanoke, VA, and MidSouthCon in Memphis, TN. We had never been to Roanoke, and as we flew into the valley with the beautiful and snow-covered Blue Ridge Mountains, I was immediately impressed, made me thinking about hiking some […]

I’m reading Jack McDevitt’s novel Cauldron, another installment in the Priscilla Hutchins series, and I’m enjoying it—as I have always enjoyed Jack’s work. Jack recently asked me to write an essay about his work for his guest-of-honor appearance at Con*Stellation 2009.  I’ve reprinted it below.  If you haven’t read any of Jack’s work, you should—he’s […]

Five months in the making.  What a pain in the butt. Our www.wordfire.com website was getting old and out of date, held together by so much programming duct tape that we could do very little of the updates and site maintenance ourselves.  We finally summoned the courage and the energy to tackle the revamp, and […]